Will Misha Verbitsky be Harvard's next Fabrikant?
Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math
> If you ask me, I am strictly _for_ legalization.
> of child pornography (along with drugs and guns).
> The current situation in US is almost as ridiculous
> as in Canada. For example, not long ago (in 80-ies)
> some guy got 5-years jail term for shooting a film
> of some 12-years old girl. The girl was in bathing suit,
> but he got his term because he "focused the camera on
> pubic area". Well, and if you have sex with the girl
> under 18 (depends on state) and you are older than say
> 19, you'll get your term for "statutory" rape even if
> the sex was purely concentual. The age depends on
> state, but the law is everywhere. And in some states
> there are additional laws - say, you can fuck
> 15-yrs old girl if you are younger than 17,
> but otherwise it's rape - this is in addition
> to the standard 18-19 legal barrier. US is a
> country of sex-crazed puritans, both leftwing
> (feminists) and right wing (fundies). Oh well,
> and MPAA crew cut sex from films with much more
> fervour than Brezhnev's censors ever tried.
In article <1994Mar31.1...@husc14.harvard.edu>, ver...@coolidge.harvard.edu (Misha Verbitsky) writes:
> (quite consciously, I _don't_ apply for a job
> in States, except Harvard and MIT which I came
> to love as much as I love Moscow
Oh my. :) What this young man lacks in mathematical abilities, he certainly
makes up in _chutzpah_. But what will he do if both MIT and Harvard refuse to
hire him, except, perhaps, as a dishwasher? More precisely, might he do what
another Soviet emigre, Prof. Fabrikant, has done under similar circumstances?
You may recall that in August 1992 Prof. Valery Fabrikant received a letter
from Concordia University stating that his tenure was again denied, but he was
being rehired for a year. That day he packed three guns into his briefcase,
went to his department, shot 4 professors dead, wounded the secretary, and took
two hostages, who later overpowered and disarmed him. He is now serving a life
sentence in a Canadian jail (IMHO should be in a mental institution instead).
Here at CUNY GC Math department there was a doctoral student named Mikhail
Shklover, also a Soviet emigre, who greatly resembled Verbitsky. An example of
Shklover's assertion was that the late Harold Proshansky, the president of CUNY
GC and an elderly psychology professor, was actually the sadistic Treblinka
death camp guard Ivan the Terrible, who was illegally adopted by the family of
Prof. Marty Moskowitz, the then chair of the math department. After he was
banned from the GC building (for attacking the late Wilhelm Magnus), he used to
mail people in the department photographs of his dog's feces. He has been
involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
With each new Usenet posting (apologia for Charles Manson, the techniques for
manufacturing illegal drugs, hyperhomologic bundles, flames on "anti-Semitic"
rock-n-roll...) Misha Verbitsky resembles even more Ted Strelesky, the former
doctoral student at Stanford's math department who killed Prof. Karel DeLieuw
after spending even more years there than Verbitsky has at Harvard. I've been
unable to ascertain if Strelesky is a Soviet emigre. His name sounds Russian,
and he used a hammer (as in "hammer and sickle") to nail the poor DeLieuw.
Verbitsky has previously announced that he's spent time in a mental institution
back in Russia, supposedly feigning mental illness to evade the Red Army draft,
but it looks to me like little, if any, malingering was required on his part.
I think the people at Harvard U's math department should be concerned about the
possibility of Mr. Verbitsky snapping and committing violent acts toward them.
(Please backdate this article by one day; sorry, I was very busy yesterday :)
The mad genius of soc.culture.soviet,
Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math
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